Donald Clarke responds to Richard Veit:

>> Some on this list may recall (from British ITV or American PBS) that the
>> theme music for the 52-episode series "A Family at War" was an excerpt
>> from the first movement of Symphony No. 6 by Ralph Vaughan Williams.
>
> Well, thank you for this, Richard.  Though I lived in England from 1973
> to 1998 and admired a lot of Granada's productions, I had never even
> heard of A Family At War.  If I ever get a chance I will check it out.

In the mid 1960s the BBC produced a documentary series on WWI - whose
title I forget.

The main music was, IIRC, by Wilfred Josephs: a man who was clearly
familiar with the slow movement of Vaughan Williams's 4th...:-)

deryk barker
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